Field Study House Requirements

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Field Study House Requirements

• Mid-terrace
• 2 storey
• Houses to be adjacent to each other
  (side-by-side)
• Insulated to, or close to, current Building
  Regulations
• Unoccupied for at least 14 months (both houses
  should be occupied at the end of this period for
  a final 4 month monitoring period)
• Minimal risk of vandalism (location issue)

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• Tandragee (semi-rural)
• Small edge of town estate
• Residents Association
• Mid-terrace (side by side)

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Typical annual temperature profile
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Typical January temperature profile
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Ground floor (0.54 W/m2K) Plastic tile floor
covering Concrete panel 300mm Internal
walls Skim 2mm Concrete panel 110mm Skim 2mm
Windows (6.0 W/m2K) White timber frame Single
glazing
External wall (1.1 W/m2K) External
render 10mm Concrete panel 115mm Filled cavity
(beads) 60mm Concrete panel 140mm Pitched roof
(0.6 W/m2K) Concrete tile 25mm Roofspace
void standard Glasswool insulation 50mm Plaster
board ceiling 25mm
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• Generally unobstructed solar access
• East and West orientation
• Thermographic survey continuity of insulation
• Kitchen window 1480mm x 1300mm
• Bedroom 2 window 1820mm x 1200mm

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• Airtightness to be tested and envelope sealed
• Extract fans to be installed in control house
• PSV to be installed in test house drawing air
  from kitchen, bathroom and upstairs landing
• Heating system